Home Sweet Home Bakealong 10: Hazelnut Macarons

I appear to have have got out of sync with the numbering on this challenge. It’s a good thing that Beckie is on the ball. So, we’re on 10/100. Maths never was my strong point in fact my A/S-Level maths teacher apologised to my mother (a maths teacher) several times after I received my somewhat underwhelming result. Anyway the New Year reminds me that A-Levels are 15 years ago now so I think we can sweep that little issue under the carpet. Onwards to tastier things…

Can you tell I got a new lens for Christmas?

I didn’t roast and peel hazelnuts. When a generic orange supermarket sells pre-ground hazelnuts I’m afraid I take the view that there are better uses of my time. I also used Coffee flavoured icing sugar from Sugar and Crumbs. I think this added a nice light tinge of coffee to the flavour, which complements the hazelnuts really well. You may also notice that my ganache looks different. Having extolled the virtues of ganache last time I split it this time. I think perhaps it’s because I had frozen the cream. Ah well – some belgian chocolate spread that was a Christmas present came in rather handy.

Your macarons look great. I’ve only made macarons once and they turned out surprisingly ok considering I was terrified of making them. Might try this recipe as I have a couple of bags of hazelnuts lying around the baking cupboard needing used!